Annotated Bibliography
- Bataille, G., The Story of the Eye, trans. Joachim Neugroschel (New York, Unzen, 1978). Bataille's best-known work and one of his earliest; an erotic fiction censored in his lifetime, originally published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’.
- Bataille, G. The Abbey, trans. Phillip A. Facey (New York, Marion Boyers, 1983). A later Bataillan erotic fiction, again emphasising what Bataille saw as the fine line between erotic and religious experience.
- Bataille, G. Eroticism, trans. Mary Dalwood (New York, Urizen, 1987). One of Bataille's last ‘scholarly’ or ‘philosophical-historical’ texts thematising erotic tropes in art and social behaviour.
- Bataille, G. Inner Experience, trans. Leslie-Ann Boldt (Albany SUNY Press, 1988). Perhaps the best-known volume of Bataille's ‘Summa Atheologica’ focusing on psychology, theology and philosophy. Written during the Second World War.
- Bataille, G. The Accursed Share, trans. Robert Hurley (New York, Zone Books, 1988). The focus of this essay; the first volume of Bataille's larger ‘critical economy’.
- Bataille, G. The Accursed Share, vols. II & III, trans. Robert Hurley (New York, Zone Books, 1995). A development of the themes developed in the first volume, focusing specifically on sovereignty and eroticism.
- Boldt-Irons, L. (ed.), On Bataille: Critical Essays (Albany, SUNY Press, 1995). One of three extremely useful English-language compilations of essays on Bataille, including work by Julia Kristeva and Jean Piel.
- Botting, Fred and Scott Wilson (ed.), Bataille: a critical reader (Maiden, Blackwell, 1998). The second frequently-cited English-language compilation on Bataille, including a translation of Jürgen Habermas' essay on Bataille and postmodernism.
- Diacritics 26.2 (Special Edition on Bataille). One of the more recent special editions of scholarly journals on Bataille, introduced by Carolyn Dean, one of the few historians to write on Bataille.
- Foucault, M., ‘A Preface to Transgression’, in Sherry Simon and Donald Bouchard (eds.) Language, Counter-Memory, Practice (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1977). Perhaps the most influential essay for Bataille interpretation; written in commemoration of Bataille after his death for Critique.
- Gill, C., Bataille: writing the sacred. (New York, Routledge, 1995). The third oft-cited English-language volume on Bataille, including work by Denis Hollier, Carolyn Gill and Susan Suleiman.
- Hollier, D. (ed.), The College of Sociology, trans. Betsy Wing (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1988). English translation of the bulk of the proceedings of the ‘College of Sociology’.
- Surya, M., Georges Bataille: An intellectual Biography, trans. Michael Richardson (London, Verso, 2002). Forthcoming translation of Surya's Bataille: la Morte à l'Œuvre (1987), prize-winning biography on Bataille.
- Yale French Studies 78 (Special Edition on Bataille). One of the more influential special editions on Bataille. Introduced by Alan Stoekl.
- Bataille's complete works in French are available from: Bataille. Œuvres Complètes (Paris, Garamond, 1977–88).